Developing a European Data Ecosystem
and a Common Vision for Interoperability
of Energy Systems in Smart Cities
Christian Mastrodonato
Ready4SmartCities Coordinator
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Creating an Innovation Environment
MORE THAN 100 PROJECTS SO
FAR SUPPORTED BY THE EC AND
INDUSTRY
ICT
ICT integration for effective
energy management and
decision making from buildings
to neighborhoods and cities
NMP
Fostering the
development of
new technologies
and their
integration in
buildings and
districts
ENERGY
ENVIRONMENT
Large scale
demonstration of most
promising solutions and
their contribution to
future smart cities
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Strategies from Buildings to Cities
Smart Buildings
Smart Districts
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Smart Cities
Towards Connected Buildings
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ICT Covers Infrastructures Lifecycle
Integration by means of ICT
End of life
a r e a s
Performance
monitoring +
management
Construction
process
Energy
equipment
+ systems
Structure &
envelope
Design
A p p l i c a t i o n
Integrated processes, new business models & services
Integration of buildings systems
Integration with mobility, infrastructures, smart cities & citizens
Integration with grids & local/district energy systems
ICT infrastructures
Knowledge sharing, awareness, education & training
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EE neighbourhood elements
Energy
distribution
©
Energy
production
and storage
People
involvement
Buildings,
infrastructure &
Transport
open
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Smart Cities as Intersection of Energy,
Transport, Waste and ICT
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Key ICT needs: Implementation
recommendations
Integrated EE neighbourhood planning process and tools
Supporting well informed EE living decisions for people
Holistic planning and
operation of energy
efficient
neighbourhoods
ICT for knowledge sharing in EE neighbourhoods
Training & education of experts
Tools for holistic energy management in neighbourhoods
Neighbourhood energy management systems integrated with
buildings, smart grids and neighbourhood systems
Energy data for neighbourhoods
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Ready4SmartCities Main Goals
READY4SmartCities project contributes in creating a common approach on Smart Cities.
In co-operation with all relevant stakeholders (engineering specialists, ICT and RES
providers, energy companies) the main goals are:
• To deliver a new data ecosystem that will accommodate cross-domain data and will
allow the exploitation of such data at global scale
• To identify a set of ontologies relevant to Smart Cities and the different requirements
and guidelines on how to use data described according to those ontologies
• To identify an holistic and shared vision, allowing feasible step-by-step action plans for
relevant stakeholder groups to develop and use ICT-based solutions for energy system
in urban and rural communities towards future Smart Cities
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Stakeholders Involvement
READY4SmartCities
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European Front-end Activities
Coordination
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New Data Ecosystem
Energy-related Models
Models
Ontologies
Standards
EMS
Energy
Management
Systems
EEM&V
Ontology
repository
Requirements &
guidelines
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Success
stories
Energy dataset
registry
Measurement &
Validation data
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Holistic and Shared Vision
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Collecting EE Data Resources
The aim is to identify the knowledge and data resources to support Energy
Management System interoperability including:
 Ontologies and vocabularies
 Relevant datasets
 Ontology alignments and data links
Covered data are:
 Energy use and production
 Energy behavior of:
- construction elements (building envelope)
- equipment (devices, sensors, automation systems)
- users (human behavior, occupancy analysis)
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Process, data, terms - ontologies
• Smart Cities need to communicate with
open protocols:
– Data defined in standards
– Terms defined in dictionaries
– Based on use cases (processes)
Data
ISO16739 (IFC)
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Knowledge Sharing Repositories
• Ontology/Dataset Catalogue
http://smartcity.linkeddata.es/index.html
• Smart Cities
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/eeCities/Home
• Validation and ee Measurement Methodologies
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/ValMet/Home
• eeSemantics
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/eeSemantics/H
ome
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FOR ANY INFORMATION PLEASE FOLLOW US:
Project Website - http://www.ready4smartcities.eu/
Ontology/Dataset Catalogue - http://smartcity.linkeddata.es/index.html
LinkedIn - ICT for Energy Efficient Communities
Twitter - @LD4ee
Thank you for the attention!
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